Although very short I think that Canarios by Gaspar Sanz is beautiful and beautifully played by Julian Bream. Hard to believe it was written so long ago. I would like to have seen the world how he did back then.Not forgetting of course Bach's Bouree

Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse MacabreBeen my favourite ever since I was 11, when we played it during music class at school and it made me cry. In my early teens I put it on headphones and set the CD-player on continuous repeat of it. I listened to it ten times a day, easily. My record is 24.(When I read Zappa's comment that he sometimes listened to Ionisation three times after each other, I couldn't help but snickering "Amateur"!)

Personally, the second movement of this sonata is one of my favourite pieces of classical piano. I've learnt to play it myself, but I've never yet practised it regularly enough to get through it without mistakes.

My favourite piece of classical music is Schubert's Unfinished (8th) Symphony. I don't know what all the fuss is about with his Great (9th) Symphony, it's never really grabbed me.

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

My favourite piece of classical music is Schubert's Unfinished (8th) Symphony. I don't know what all the fuss is about with his Great (9th) Symphony, it's never really grabbed me.

It's the Gargamel theme. Whenever in one of the gool ol' Smurf cartoons the focus shifted to Gargamel's house, you'd first hear a few notes from Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, and then Schubert's 9th.

I've tried to play the first movement of Beethoven's Pathétique myself but failed as soon as the tempo picks up. I also tried and failed at that other famous Beethoven sonata Rowan Atkinson used in his piano sketch (op 27 nr 2, sonata #14 AKA Moonlight, 3rd movement), it's just too much to play on a keyboard. Fortunately I can play the first movement of that sonata, although the continuous octave position really hurts my hands.

Me and my wife are listening to a couple of Satie piano music albums at the moment. You know the ones...overused in TV commercials a decade or so back.But, for those quiet reflective moments, with just the simplicity of a solo piano...sublime.

This artist's music to the best of my knowledge has never been released on CD. The page contains MP3s but they are iffy on download ability.

_________________"Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read and what we must believe?" T.J.

This is a wonderful piece. Stravinsky's skewed take on jazz through his own eyes. Great sense of humor. Originally played by Benny Goodman.

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